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Hypothesis.

A claim the record does not yet settle, one shape for its faces

Figure 1Hypothesisspecified

Hypothesis is a work at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.

kind: work
scope: follows
key: the claim and its subject
store: postgres
family: kernel

Fields#

field	type	required	note
`claim`	`text`	yes
`face`	`one of a possible match \| a candidate \| a part inferred from a website \| a forecast \| a proposed definition \| a suggested connection \| a suggested claim \| a done move \| a rival marking \| a play's class \| a propensity`	yes	the five faces of a claim under test, the three the grounding makes, the rival marking a person makes and settles at once, a play’s class read on the beat and settled by the rule, and a propensity of an actor or a content for a lead, settled by the effects (MODELS/the-strategy-system-as-a-formal-model sections 3.2 and 7)
`subject`	`id`	yes
`subject_entity`	`id`	no
`evidence_for`	EvidenceRef	yes
`evidence_against`	EvidenceRef	yes
`tests`	HypothesisTest	yes	owed and run
`bar`	`text`	yes	what settles it
`decider`	`one of a person \| the agent under a grant \| the rule \| the effect`	yes
`standing`	`one of under test \| supported \| refuted \| cannot tell`	yes
`made_at`	`time`	yes
`settled_at`	`time`	no
`settled_by`	Caller	no
`proposes`	ProposedFact	no	the fact the record would hold if the claim were supported, in the record’s own shape
`breadth`	`one of exact \| similar \| related \| broad`	no	how wide the grounding cast when it made this claim
`score`	`share`	no	the grounding’s nearness, before a person’s word
`grounding`	`id`	no	the grounding that made it

Routes that use it#

/v1/act/settle returns it
/v1/act/weigh returns it